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> Hello
>
> I was wandering if anybody out there has had any success using 3ware
> 7506-8 cards with Freebsd 4.10. I  was previously using a Promise
> controller SX6000, and was having problems with this card.

This is something of a FAQ.

There's a long list of people using 3ware 6/7/8xxx series cards in FreeBSD
4.x boxes with great success.  AFAIK that extends to 5.x as well.

The Promise ATA RAID cards just plain suck, IMO.